Practical guides for Australian founders and developers — building the backend, choosing the stack, and staying on the right side of the CLOUD Act and the Privacy Act.
Every SaaS backend has the same six layers — database, auth, APIs, storage, email, backups. In Australia there's a seventh that decides which customers you can sell to. Here's how to build all of it, sovereign from day one.
AWS RDS, Supabase, Neon, DigitalOcean, Firebase and WattleDB — six real options ranked for Australian teams on the axis global lists skip: whose laws can reach your data.
Supabase, Appwrite, PocketBase, Nhost, WattleDB — ranked on the axis most lists skip: who owns the company, and whose laws can reach your data.
Residency is geography. Sovereignty is jurisdiction. Why a US provider's Sydney region isn't sovereign — and what the 2024 reforms mean for your data.
Same developer experience, genuine Australian sovereignty. A full feature-by-feature comparison, plus an honest take on when to choose each.
Health, childcare, construction, telco, education, legal, accounting, real estate, aged care — the specific regulations that make Australian sovereignty a requirement, not a preference.
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